Operating system, programming language and programming styles.

Among the currently available operating systems. The Unix family (Unix/Linux/FreeBSD) is the choice for scientific computation. If you have some knowledge about Unices, you should use them as your working environment for the programming works of this course. If you are stuck with MS, then good luck.

1. Download the following public domain softwares to your local hard disk.
   • GSview 2.4: gsv24w32.zip
   • Ghostscript 5.10: gs510w32.zip and gs510ini.zip.
   • Ghostscript fonts: gs510fn1.zip and gs510fn2.zip.
2. Unzip the file gsv24w32.zip and extract the contents to a temporary directory, say C:\tmp.
3. Put all other files, gs510w32.zip, gs510ini.zip, gs510fn1.zip, and gs510fn2.zip, to the same directory (C:\tmp). You don't need to unzip these files.
4. Run setup.exe which is extracted from gsv24e32.zip. During this installation procedure
   • Choose English as the default language.
   • Choose both Install GSview and Install Ghostscript from one of the menu.
   • Better to use the default directory C:\gstools as the destination directory.
   This will install both GSview and Ghostscript.
5. After the installation, run gsview32.exe (it's under C:\gstools\gsview directory) for the first time to configure the language (choose English) and Type 1 fonts directory (you can use the default C:\psfonts). You only need to do this once, unless you want to change the configuration later. After the configure, you may exit the program.
6. Start Netscape Navigator,
   • Select "Edit", then "Preferences...". A panel window will show up.
   • Under the Navigator, select "Application".
   • Find "Postscript" from the application list and "Edit" it. Or choose "New Type" if Postscript is not on the list.
   • Then specify the following information properly.
     Description: Postscript
     File Extension: ps, eps
     MIME Type: application/gsview
     Application: C:\gstools\gsview\gsview32.exe
     
   • Press OK after done.
   The procedure for Internet Explore is similar.
7. You may delete all the source files from the temporary directory (C:\tmp).
8. Now you are done! Next time when you click on link which is Postscript format, a question panel will show up, select "Open it". The browser will invoke GSview to display the content of the file to your screen.